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HOUSE COMMIT rEE FAVORABLY REPORTS ON LEVHR BILL. FIXES CinTON STATDARD * i 1,111 " SMITH FEELS HOPEFUL SENATOR'IS CONFIDENT OF DE MOCRACY'S FUTURE. I- WANT TO'DELAY ACTION SENATE SEEM DETERMINED TO • * -. • • , . ' • • STALL LEGISLATION. MEDIATORS HAVE RECEIVED NO ANSWER FROM CARRANZA. Lerer Measure is Adopted ms Substi tute (or the Act of the Senate, and Compels the Adoption of Govern- | * ment Standards by All Cotton Cen ters in the Futures Market. The Lever cotton futures bill was favorably reported * to the House Thursday as a substitute for the bill already passed by the Senate. Rep resentative Lever of South Carolina, author of the bill and chairman of the agricultural committee, included in hts favorable report a complete analysis of exchange transactions. The bill, says the report, “recog nizes the economic value of those cot ton exchanges that use a contract representative of the true value of spinnable cotton and levels its pro hibition against those exchanges only the value of whose contracts is sus ceptible to violent fluctuations and manipulation. “Upon such contracts the value of which, under the rules of the ex changes, does iiot reflect truly the value of spot .cotton as it exists from day to day in the hands of the farm ers upon local markets," adds the re port, “a tax of $5 a bale is levied. Such a tax, in the judgment of the trade, is absolutely prohibitive. Upon such contracts as do represent the value of spot cotton, no tax whatever is laid, and this is true likewise of all spot cotton transactions including the ‘f. o. b.’ cotton, cotton ‘to arrive’ and ‘for prompt delivery.’ “The whole purpose of the bill Is to compel by law the use of such a contract by the future markets, the quotations of the value of which will reflect accurately and truly the value of spot cotton of spinnable and valu able quality. In the light of the best information available, the ultimate effect of providing a contract of the character described in the bill will enhance the opinion of experts, the cotton crop in the hands of the farm ers of the South not less than flOO,- 000,000 annually.’* Mr. Lever said he hoped for pas sage of the bill by the House at this session. The Senate measure, which was introduced by Senator Smith of South Carolina differs from the Lever bill only in minor details. Summar izing at length the provisions and effect of the House bill. Chairman Lever’s report says: “The bill compels the adoption of the government official standards by all future markets. It establishes a uniform standard of grades, through out the country and relieves the trade of the confusion and abuses growing out of the present multiplicity of standards in different markets. It prohibits the use, in the settlement of contracts, of the Illogical and un sound ‘fixed difference system’ and substitutes therefor the system of commercial differences in .determin ing the relative value of grades de livered upon contracts. "It denies to any cotton exchange the use of any contract for the future delivery of cotton, under the terms of which the very low grades of cotton, ‘rejections’, ‘left-overs,’ ‘misfits,’ and ‘dog tails’—qualities of cotton en tirely unsultdd for spinning purposes —are deliverable upon it. It pro vides that cotton of a staple less than seven-eighths of an inch in length shall not be delivered in the settle ment of such a contract. “Each bale of cotton to be deliver ed upon a contract shall be identified by grade with the date when the cot ton is to be delivered to the pur chaser, thus abolishing the practice of long delays and pro fprma deliv- eries. _ _ “It provides that the secretary of agriculture shall determine in cases of disputes arising between the per son making the tender and the per son receiving the same, the quality, orf the grade, or the length of staple in dispute, furnishing as it were an unbiased tribunal to which may be referred disputes which involve the quality or the grade or the length of staple of any cotton tendered under tre contract. '. “Provision is made for the method of determining the relative commer cial value of the different grades of cotton w'hich may be delivered upon contract, and the secretary of agri culture is given such plenary power as will make it impossible to manipu late the machinery by which these differences are determined. “Power is given the secretary to establish standards of cotton by which Its quality may be determined. “It is required of all persons com ing within the provisions of the bill to keep such records arid statements of accounts as will fully and correctly Nttselose all transactions made upon aay exchange, board of trade, simi lar Institution, or place of business. “Tpe bill undertaken to prrvent, as far af possible, the transfer of the present vicious practices of certain exchanges from this country to for- Admlnistration is Carrying Out its Campaign Pledges and Even Do ing More. • . • * j I.'-:’'---* - " • .1 Senator E. D. Smith was In Flor ence a few hours Monday. He spoke very hopefully of the Outlook In Washington, though he thought that the Democratic administration was passing through a very crucial perjod, and one fraught with occasion for anxiety. He was hopeful, because the party and the administration had car ried out practically every campaign promise to the people, and redeemed its pledges. • The Mexican problem and the method in which It has been handled by the administration, he declared, have appealed to the nations of the earth, so far, as a triumph of the ul timate achievement of clear Intellec tuality and common sense in control of a delicate situation. President WITsOn and his cabinet, he said, have followed a course apparently in con flict with what is generally consid ered the American spirit, one that subjected them to adverse criticism, but if the difficulties there be settled, as they apparently will be shortly, and peace and prosperity be brought to Mexico, which may be reasonably expected, without bloodshed, this ad ministration will have convinced the world that devastating international warfare can be avoided. So far the. president and his ad visers have succeeded in spite of rath er than with the help of certain forces that should have been lined up with them in their effort to exhaust every means compatible with dignity and honor for -the peaceable settle ment of the difficulties in which we were becoming involved. The effect of the operation of the new tariff and currency law will be come more apparent and generally recognized by the people of this coun try in the near future than just now. One has not yet been put into Dera tion, and one has barely been put into operation. All of which, coupled with the anti-trust laws, should prove to the country that this administration and the Democratic party have prov ed of real and practical benefit to the whole country and to all the people. Senator Smith says he is too busy with present affairs to talk of per sonal interests and local polltica; he is trying to get real things done in the capital. MOR MEMRERS ARRESTED. Six Men of Aiken County Will Face Trial for Alleged Offenses "“Weells Heath, Monroe Weathers- bee, Bud Redd, Joe Craig, L. Redd and Lonnie Craig, all white, of Aiken, were bound over Saturday morning after a preliminary hearing to the court of general sessions on a charge of assault with intent to kill and shooting into a dwelling house. The preliminary was the afthermath of the recent disorder on the Hitchcock plantation Jn Aiken county* about eight miles from Aiken, when the farm hands went on strike. Bond was given in the sum of $200 each. When the farm hands struck, one old negro man, Calvin Williams, who lived on the place, refused to quit work. His horrte was visited one night by a mob and it was testified at the hearing that more than 1,000 shots were fired into the house. The place was completely wrecked, but no one was injured by the bullets as the negroes fled. The mob then visited- the home of Manager Williams of the Hitchcock plantation, pinned on his door and ta|?g<M the fence with papers bearing threatening in scriptions. The six white nien are charged with being members of the mob. President is Firm la His Purpose and Will Try to Force Consideration of Reforms. With the hope of preventing the enactment of trust legislation at this session of congress, a tacit agreement to delay the legislative program Is believed to be guiding the actions of many senators in Washington. It is the hope of these obstruction ists that by dragging out debate on the tolls exemption repeal bill and on the various appropriation bills they can make it impossible to ad journ before late" in August or Sep tember If any trust legislation is to be enacted. Their plan is, just before the last appropriation bill hap been taken up, and after the tolls question has been - "BCttiud, to begin their ac tive and open work to obtain ad journment. — In view of the fact that one-third of the senators will be eager to get back to their states to run in the populaf elections, they county on much backing In their 'demand for time to mend their fences. TheT also count on support from the House, where every .member wants to get back to his district. Friends of the president, however, state that no matter if these tactics should draw out the present session of congress until it merges with the new session beginning December 7, the trust legislation must be enact ed. They hope that when this finally draws upon the obstructionists the delay program will be abandoned." The passage of the agricultural ap propriation bill through the Senate took forty days. A week or so is, normaily, pTentyTbr the discussion 6T ‘ such a measure. Passage of all kinds of bills and work in general in the Senate has been Jield up through the eagbrness, at every opportunity, or Republican senators to make speeches attacking the Democratic tariff law, which Democratic senators feel obliged to answer, much as they deplore the waste of lime. Next week the Rivers and harbors bill, increased id the Senate commit tee by a round of $10,000,000, will be reported out. This Is one of the prize packages in the way of a pork barrel bill, with every senator want ing all he can get for his own state. A long drawn out battle la expected, with set speeches for distribution in the approaching campaign plentifully ornaiqentlng the Congressional Rec ord, and Incidentally taking up the Senate’s time. The tolls debate—that is, the heavy, set speech part—has nearly concluded. Mr. Carton of New Mexi co, who will speak Monday, is the only remaining senator who has given notice of his intention to speak, though a number of others will un doubtedly make . long addresses. When the time comes for the vote it is likely that about a day will be consumed in roll calls. PLANNED HEROISM. PEACE PROSPECT GOOD Carranza's Washingtort Representa tive Takes Up the Matter With His Chief—Officials Appear Sure of Success Although Admitting Possi bility of Setback. TILLMAN IS FOR SMITH DENIES HAVING ENDORSED GOV- ' -ERNOR’B AMBITION. Washington Watchman namite Which He “Discovered California Volcano Active. For the first time in 70 years vol canic activity occurred Saturday when for eighteen hours smoke, steam, rocks and volcanic ashes were thrown out by Mount Lassen, in the Cascade range near Redding, Cal. I Another Convict Freed. The governor has granted a -par don to J. H. Verner, who was con victed in Anderson county In Jan uary of this year of larceny and sen tenced to one year. Several hundred clerks and officials fled in fright from their offices in the department of agriculture Tuesday when Daniel V. Jauch, a watchman, ran through the corridors shouting that the building was about to be de stroyed by dynamite. Led by Jauch, several of the cooler headed department officials ran to the basement, where they found four sticks of dynamite oiwwhich the fuses had been burned out. Apparently an PTPP. e .[ ex plosion—k the fuses had been Jammed too tight ly into the detonation caps that the fire was extinguished. Then came a hurried sequel. Jauch t who had suffered severe injury to his head while serving as a soldier in the Phillipines two’ years ago, was taken to a police station and subjected to rigid questioning. Later the police announced he had admitted that he, himself, placed the explosives. De partment officials said they believed the wafchmattiintended to “discover” the dynamite before it could do harm, hoping to wi npromotion for heroism. Strikers Destroy Property. Strikers at the Palermo snlphnr mines Tuesday burned half the town, tore up the railway tracks and cut telephone and telegraph wires. Troops established order. ^ *' that any I 9i any tax posed by the bill who falls to pay, or evades or attempts to evade the pay ment of suCh a tax, or any* person who otherwise violates^ any of the provisions of the act, or any rule or regulation, made under it. shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $20,OdO, and. In case of natural Pinsons may In addition be punished by Imprisonment for not less than sixty days nor more than three and in addition to tUa, may $2)000, to be recovered la an dad oa thla act la the aams WILSON UPHELD. Florida Elects Supporter of President And Retires Opponent. The first primary election at which the tolls repeal bill was made an is sue w as in Florida. Senator Drinran U. Fletcher, Who is supporting the president most heartily in his fight for the repeal of the exemption clause o£ the Panama canal act, was renominated by the Democrats by a majority of 6,000. ' The only representative defeated in the primaries was QJaude L'Engle, representative-at-large. He was de feated by about 3,000. Mr. L'Engle was paired against the repeal hill when the vote was taken In the House. The question was brought forward by the opponents of Mr. and by the friends of Mr. Gaffney Tuesday twenty auto- -led-ftf Whether the Mexican Constitution alists afe to participate in peace nego tiations at Niagara Falls probably was known Friday. Agents of Gen. Carranza Thursday night were ih tel egraphic communication with the Constitutionalist leader after having forwarded to him the answer of the South American mediators to his message of protest carried to Niagara Falls last week. •- - Publication of the mediators’ mes sage was withheld until Gen. Carran za has determined on his reply. Ra- rael Zubaran, minister of the interior in Carranza’s cabinet and head of the Constitutionalist agency in Wash ington, would not discuss the nature of the mediators’ proposals or the probable attitude of his chief. Per sons in touch with the Constitution- aliat agency, however, suggested that the terms on which the mediators proposed to receive the Constitution alists into the peace negotiations would be defined. ^ The mediators’ note, addressed to Mr. Zubaran, reached Washington in a special delivery letter. As soon as the message was received, the Con stitntionalist agency began prepara tions to eommuntcate with -Gen.-Car- ranza at Durango by a special wire. When the mediators’ message had been .forwarded, conferences witr their chieftain were begun over the wire. Administration offipinls awaited the outcome with considerable anxiety. Throughout the day there were some expressions of apprehension in official quarters over the success of media- tioq, plans as originally outlined. It was the first time that any admission had been made of probable setbacks. Tet those who admitted the possibil ity of obstacles insisted that all dif ficulties ultimately would be over come. Secretary Bryan again reiter ated that mediation was progressing satisfactorily. At Constitutionalist headquarters those engaged personality in the long distance deliberations with the Con stitutionalist leader refused to say whether t!Te communication contain ed a possibility of settlement of Mexi can difficulties from the Constitution alist point of view. One source, how ever, intimated that there were sug gestions in the note that had not been forecast in previous dispatches from Niagara Falls. While ammunition for the Consti tutionalists was en route Thursday to Tampico from the United States, ad mission came from the state depart ment Mnqdi^tera, J»a*^ smoothed the path "for Constitutionalist participa tion. The United States government wants them to accept. A rejection may eventually mean the Washington government's withdrawal of the moral support it- has been extending to the Constitutionalist cause. It is known the mediators want the Constitutionalists to come into the conference so that the solution by peaceful methods may be an historic example to Pan-America by the way revolutions can be ended in countries of this hemisphere. But if the Constitutionalists refuse o enter, mediation will proceed. An agreement will be reached between the United States and the Huerta ad ministration through which a new government will be set up. The in ternational conflict will have been re solved and the probability that Ar gentine, Brazil antf Chile will accord recognition and moral support to the new provisional government. The United States would be expected to do likewise. Gen. Carranza announced Thurs day through ^gents' in Washington that he would not make answer to the communication of the mediators, nor Issue his proclamation dealing with the formation of a provisional government in northern Mexico until he had reached Saltillo. At the same time it was announced that the Constitutionalist commander In chief had departed from Durango on his way to Saltillo by way of Torreon. The opinion of those surrounding Carranza regarding the three-corner ed cpnference at Niagara was reflect ed once more in a semi-official state ment from Durango. The statement follows: ’ “ ‘Hamlet with Hamlet left out’ is the way many Constitutionalist lead «rs expressed themselves regarding the conference at Niagara Falls. That a plan can be found to settle interior alaTrs'ln Mexico without'the participation of the Constitutionalist government is regarded by them as impossible. ^ , They point ont that the only par ty directly interested ly Mexico which has been represented In the forma tion of the Niagara Falla 'plena had "The State’s Good Name Will be Bet- *• « ter Preserved ami We Will Have a Better Senator.” .Senator Tillman Thursday gave out the following on the South Caro lina political situation, especially with reference to John L. McLaurin’s letter on the stand of John G. Rich ards Jr., and the governor: “I have just seen a telegram from The News and Courier to its correspondent here saying McLaurin has made a public statement.to this effect: “ T am glad that Senator Tillman has reached the conclusion that peace can only come .through the election, not the defeat of Gov. Blease, and that his candidate, Rich ards, has declared for Gov. Blease.’ “To say that I am surprised, very much surprised, does not express my feelings. I have not given out any such utterance, and have not had any such thought. I am sure that what ever may be Mr. Richards’ attitude, he will regret ever having declared for Gov. Blease. Whether peace will come by Gov. Blease’s defeat or not I know the State’s good name will be preserved and we will have a bet ter senator here than if Blease is sent to Washington. “Of course McLaurin -is swinging onto Blease’s coattail in a desperate hope that he will thus be pulled through and elected governor, but as I predicted some months ago there is no hope for him ever recovering the confidence of the peoplri v of South Carolina until he has expiated his past misdeeds and sins. 1 am satis fied now that if Senator Smith bears himself like a man that this open alliance between'TTIease and 'McLau rin will only help to bury both of them. “Had McLaurin followed my ad vice and exposed Bleaseism, Its ut-ter selfishness, its lack of catholicity of spirit and statesmanship, he would have stood some chance of coming back in the future, for he would have made atonement for. his betrayal of the people of the State. But now there is ’no earthly chance for him, whatever Blease does. 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The examinations are open only a lawyers from certain states, one of which is South Caro lina. The place pays between $1,500 and $1,800 annually. The examina tion will be held July 21. (5ther examinations to be held are: Law assistant, in the office of the solicitor of the department of agricul ture, July 22-23, at a salary of $1,- 600; senior highway engineer and highway engineer in the office of pub lic roads, June 29, at salaries of $2,- 200 to $3,00-0 and $1,800 and $2,100, respectively; assistant epidemiolo gist,- July 6, at a salary of between $2,000 and. $2,500; assistant mining engineer in the bureau of mines, July 13, at a salary of between $1,800 and $2,400: and structual engineer and draftsman in the office of the super vising architect, July 8-9, at a salary of fr6m $150 to $175 per month. TJie examinations are open only to men. Should • Make More Powder. A naval appropriation bill provides for an increase in capacity of the government powder factory at Indian Head, Md., so that all smokeless pow ders for the navy may be manufac tured there. Adopts Australian Ballot. The Charleston county Democratic executive committee Friday night de cided to adopt the Australian ballot system for city primary voting. feated by the Constitutionalists at every ooint, is in the throes of dis- solu**' -nd is in ,no condition to fulfill* any pledges that might be made. The ConstitutioBalists have declared repeatedly that the 'sole so lution of the internal differences of the country was the elimination Of Huerfa and his party from .politics. '“The Constitutionalists emphasize the fact that they will recognize only a government established under the plan of Guadelupe at the triumph of the revolution. By this time the commander in fchlef of the Constitu tionalist party will be provisional president of Mexico while elections are being verified and constitutional order is restored. "In a word the Constitutionalists think it would be well for the com mission to acquaint themselves with the facts before committing them selves to a program which there is Bp possibility of their carrying oat.** indigestion • is often the result of poor blood. Tbe glands that secrete the gastric juices can not get the right chemicals from poisoned blood, and undigesibU food Kets Into the intestines, causing fermentation, head* ache, constipation* nenralgia ar>d rheo- mat ism. with a whole train of attendant disorders. These disorders make the blood worse. Until it ie cleaned of poison there can be no relief. Clean the bJood and most all ills are cured. Rheumatism has disappeared after the use of Mrs. Joe Persons’ Remedy for the blood. The stomach has regained its strength, and the whole digestive tract has been toned up to do its work well. Give Nature the chance she wants. She will repair the damage. Mrs. Joe Person’s Remedy. Aids Nature That la on* of the reasons It has been so sarressful for forty years In haallnf the sick, restoring strong mnseles, steady nerves and good stomachs to the 111. Hun dreds of yonr neighbors ran and do UsUfy to this sterling remedy for blood disaaaes and woman's Uls. Your druggist ought to hare it. If be cannot supply yon. send his name and a dollar to the manufacturer* NCSSKOY SALES CORPORATION. J r Charlotte. North CaroHna. Mrt. Jot Ptrun’i Wnsli In conmn-Uon with the Remedy for the cure of sores and. the relief of inflamed and congested surfaces. It Is especially valuable to women, and should always be used for ulceraUons. ^ . SIX MEN SUFFOCATE. Five Sailors Succumb Trying to Re- l lease Overpowered Comrade, 4 Leaving behind her a single gri on the gulf coast of Mexico near r Tuxpam oil fields, the bodies of First: Officer P. F. Elliott and five members of the crew suffocated by an accumu lation of gas in her forepeak, the British tank steamship San Valerio arrived in America from Tuxpam,. Mex. The accident occurred May 28, five of the men going to their death in an attempt to rescue H. Cousins, the ship’s carpenter, who was over come while attempting to make re pairs on a bilge pump. First Officer Elliott tried to bring him out but failed to return and, ac cording to the story told by the ship’s officers, four others, hastening to- reach the two men before they should be suffocated, descended into the hole and in turn succumbed. A seaman with a fire helmet brought out the lifeless bodies. ENCAMPMENT OFF. War Department Calls off Division Encampment at Augusta. , The joint encampment of the mil itia of the four states, comprising'the ninth division, will not encamp at Augusta, Qa., the order to this effect being revoked by the federal authori ties. Notice of the calling off of the Augusta encampment was received Wednesday afternoon In a telegram to Adjt. Gen. Moore from W. A. Simpson, adjutant general of the de partment of tre East at Governor’s Island, New York. The troops of each state will camp within Its borders, and the’j ulah troops will participate wifh each commencing with North, Carolina, then to South Carolina, Georgia End Florida. Cruiser Prairie Brings Wounded. The cruiser Prairie, which took i prominent part In the capture of Ver Cmz, returned tyf Hampton Road Monday with some patients for th naval hospital at Norfolk.